nahh sooo many good reasons to hate Ellison:-for single-handedly destroying the America's Cup Race-For trying to cripple Android with blatant patent-trolling-and now, for being a dedicated swallower of fascism

nahh sooo many good reasons to hate Ellison:-for single-handedly destroying the America's Cup Race-For trying to cripple Android with blatant patent-trolling-and now, for being a dedicated swallower of fascism

And for destroying OpenSolaris and Ian Murdock's attempt to revive a once great OS.

Irving Maimway:And for destroying OpenSolaris and Ian Murdock's attempt to revive a once great OS.

Fortunately, even though Oracle washed their hands of it, it lives on as Illumos. There are several systems built around it, with differing goals: OpenIndiana, OmniOS, SmartOS, and NexentaStor, for instance. I doubt it will ever get the sort of mindshare that Linux has (and it's extra-picky about hardware, really preferring server-class hardware rather than desktop systems), but it still makes a damn fine server/NAS system.

/built my first OpenSolaris setup shortly before Oracle took over Sun and pulled the plug

he won the last one, which mens by the rules of the "sport" he gets to set the design of the next Yacht. He chose a hyper-advanced design that meant that almost nobody but a billionaire playboy could afford to build one, and as a result the racing feild this year is a whopping 4 boats including his

While you're at it, you really ought to notice that the members of the House who voted against the recent effort to shut down spying on Americans without a warrant just so happened to be the folks who had been getting fat checks from the companies getting rich spying on Americans.

Magorn:he won the last one, which mens by the rules of the "sport" he gets to set the design of the next Yacht. He chose a hyper-advanced design that meant that almost nobody but a billionaire playboy could afford to build one, and as a result the racing feild this year is a whopping 4 boats including his

Right. Because the America's Cup before Ellison was such an egalitarian and open sport for those looking to participate on a budget...

He is trying to turn the affair from being a boring yacht race into something more interesting and exciting to watch. It's always been a bunch of rich guys sailing, but now it's rich guys sailing on super fast, highly advanced, seriously dangerous floating carbon fiber wings. I've never had anything but a passing interest in the America's Cup, but Ellison's version? I'll tune in to watch it.

He looks so Type A that all the NSA has to tell him is they've got his back. If he needs a new heart, they have tracked the 100 most acceptable donors on the planet, and accidents do happen.

Stopped using that expensive Oracle SQL before the advent of the "special commands" like 'SELECT AND RENDER SECRET * WHERE EMAIL CONTAINS @NAUGHTYWORDLIST AND NOT IN @DONORLIST' although that hierarchical select was awesome.

Orin Hatch and some others directly intervened in getting EU approval for Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems, which is always sending Java Updates. I wonder how many of those Java updates have a little extra from the NSA. When you think about it, access to information defines access to power.